Hi John, If your head phones are plugged in to the head phone jac on your computer, there really isn't a way to have them both sounding at the same time. Most computers are set up so that when you plug phones in, the speakers shut off. If one had a USB soundcard, this might be possible.
Sorry, and I hope this helped. Tim Hi again Borris and all, Well I did get my headset and mic set up for my online classes and also for Skype. But now my computer speakers are shut off. Isw there a way to get both my headsets and the computer speakers to work at the same time? Thanks much, John At 05:25 AM 10/25/2008, you wrote: >No rebooting necessary, sort of takes half the fun out of hot-swappable >USB devices. >Just make sure that your prefered devices are setup for your USB headset >in control panel/sounds and audio devices as mentioned earlier. Many USB >audio devices set themselves up as your prefered playback/recording >preference when they are first installed. You may or may not have to >restart your screen reader for speech to be redirected through the new >sound device, depending on several factors. In the case of Window-Eyes, >you can easily change the output device of it's built-in DEC-Talk >access32 speech without issue. Even NVDA has provisions for easily >swapping output ports through ESpeak or sapi5. Jaws, in typical fassion, >requires more work to keep it's output locked to a specific device, >which is further complicated by the fact that it tends to use the >default preference for local-service when started as a system service, >rather than the logged-in user's preference. Depending on the system >configuration, they are not necessarily the same. > >BTW, for anyone looking at USB headsets, I highly recommend the Cad U2 >USB mic/headset combo ($39). Beats anything I've ever seen from >Logitech, Labtec, Plantronics and the like, in terms of both mic and >headphone audio quality. > >Blue wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I think you have to plug them and reboot your computer in order to hear > > window eyes through them. Then you will have to configure the microphone > > settings. 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